Useful shortcuts in windows operating system which is worthwhile to master and apply in your day to day activities in order to enhance your productivity
Ctrl+A – Select All
Ctrl+B – Bold
Ctrl+C – Copy
Ctrl+D – Fill Down
Ctrl+F – Find
Ctrl+G – Goto
Ctrl+H – Replace
Ctrl+I – Italic
Ctrl+K – Insert Hyperlink
Ctrl+N – New Workbook
Ctrl+O – Open
Ctrl+P – Print
Ctrl+R – Fill Right
Ctrl+S – Save
Ctrl+U – Underline
Ctrl+V – Paste
Ctrl W – Close
Ctrl+X – Cut
Ctrl+Y – Repeat
Ctrl+Z – Undo
F1 – Help
F2 – Edit
F3 – Paste Name
F4 – Repeat last action
F4 – While typing a formula, switch between absolute/relative refs
F5 – Goto
F6 – Next Pane
F7 – Spell check
F8 – Extend mode
F9 – Recalculate all workbooks
F10 – Activate Menu bar
F11 – New Chart
F12 – Save As
Ctrl+: – Insert Current Time
Ctrl+; – Insert Current Date
Ctrl+” – Copy Value from Cell Above
Ctrl+¡¯ – Copy Formula from Cell Above
Shift – Hold down shift for additional functions in Excel¡¯s menu
Shift+F1 – What¡¯s This?
Shift+F2 – Edit cell comment
Shift+F3 – Paste function into formula
Shift+F4 – Find Next
Shift+F5 – Find
Shift+F6 – Previous Pane
Shift+F8 – Add to selection
Shift+F9 – Calculate active worksheet
Shift+F10 – Display shortcut menu
Shift+F11 – New worksheet
Ctrl+F3 – Define name
Ctrl+F4 – Close
Ctrl+F5 – XL, Restore window size
Ctrl+F6 – Next workbook window
Shift+Ctrl+F6 – Previous workbook window
Ctrl+F7 – Move window
Ctrl+F8 – Resize window
Ctrl+F9 – Minimize workbook
Ctrl+F10 – Maximize or restore window
Ctrl+F11 – Inset 4.0 Macro sheet
Ctrl+F1 – File Open
Alt+F1 – Insert Chart
Alt+F2 – Save As
Alt+F4 – Exit
Alt+Down arrow – Display AutoComplete list
Alt+¡¯ – Format Style dialog box
Ctrl+Shift+~ – General format
Ctrl+Shift+! – Comma format
Ctrl+Shift+@ – Time format
Ctrl+Shift+# – Date format
Ctrl+Shift+$ – Currency format
Ctrl+Shift+% – Percent format
Ctrl+Shift+^ – Exponential format
Ctrl+Shift+& – Place outline border around selected cells
Ctrl+Shift+_ – Remove outline border
Ctrl+Shift+* – Select current region
Ctrl++ – Insert
Ctrl+- – Delete
Ctrl+1 – Format cells dialog box
Ctrl+2 – Bold
Ctrl+3 – Italic
Ctrl+4 – Underline
Ctrl+5 – Strikethrough
Ctrl+6 – Show/Hide objects
Ctrl+7 – Show/Hide Standard toolbar
Ctrl+8 – Toggle Outline symbols
Ctrl+9 – Hide rows
Ctrl+0 – Hide columns
Ctrl+Shift+( – Unhide rows
Ctrl+Shift+) – Unhide columns
Alt or F10 – Activate the menu
Ctrl+Tab – In toolbar: next toolbar
Shift+Ctrl+Tab – In toolbar: previous toolbar
Ctrl+Tab – In a workbook: activate next workbook
Shift+Ctrl+Tab – In a workbook: activate previous workbook
Tab – Next tool
Shift+Tab – Previous tool
Enter – Do the command
Shift+Ctrl+F – Font Drop down List
Shift+Ctrl+F+F – Font tab of Format Cell Dialog box
Shift+Ctrl+P – Point size Drop down List
Ctrl + E – Align center
Ctrl + J – justify
Ctrl + L – align
Ctrl + R – align right
Alt + Tab – switch applications
Windows + P – Project screen
Windows + E – open file explorer
Windows + D – go to desktop
Windows + M – minimize all windows
Windows + S – search
